Articles posted in December, 2003

Champions’ League: Day 6 (Arsenal 2 – Moskow 0 & Kyiv 1 – Inter Milan 1)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2003 • 11:51 am

It was a highly dramatic and hugely entertaining evening again in the sixth and final day of the Champions’ League qualifying round. It was a crucial game for Arsenal, who still had it all to do in order to qualify for the round of 16 of the Champions’ League — but then, so did the […]

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ZDNet.fr et les majuscules dans les titres

Wednesday, December 10th, 2003 • 4:47 am

Le site ZDNet.fr est de toute évidence la version française du site américain ZDNet.com. Il reprend souvent des articles parus sur ZDNet.com et en propose une version française. Il s’agit donc, à bien des égards, d’une traduction du site américain. Malheureusement, cette traduction est, par endroits, d’une bien piètre qualité. Le problème le plus frappant […]

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Steve Jobs interview in Rolling Stone

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 • 8:35 am

I am pretty sure that most Betalogue readers are already aware of this, but just in case: Rolling Stone has an interview with Steve Jobs, mostly about the iPod, the iTunes Music Store and the recording industry. It’s a pretty good read.

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Using limited bandwidth more efficiently: Speed Download 2

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 • 4:02 am

Having had more than my share of bandwidth-related problems over the years, since I see no improvement coming from Apple until I get access to a broadband solution, I decided that it was time to try and see if there was anything that could be done about it within existing constraints, i.e. through a third-party […]

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Panther’s Mail: “Move To” menu still needs work

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 • 12:44 am

The “Move To” menu in Panther’s Mail application is a vast improvement over previous versions. Instead of showing the entire mailbox structure in expanded form in the menu, which could result in a menu with thousands of items, now the menu is hierarchical, like it used to be in Eudora with the “Transfer” menu, for […]

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Missing blockquote closing tag

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 • 12:02 am

For those readers who accessed Betalogue in the past 18 hours or so using Safari, my apologies for the screwed-up look of the home page. For some reason, one of the recently posted blog entries was missing a closing blockquote tag — and Safari didn’t like that at all. Explorer and Camino were not affected. […]

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Safari: Cursor not changing to hand icon

Monday, December 8th, 2003 • 11:49 pm

This is a problem that doesn’t seem to want to go away in Safari. It was there in the early betas and is still there in the latest version (1.1.1). On some web pages, when the cursor hovers over an active link, the cursor icon doesn’t change to a “hand” symbol like it’s supposed to. […]

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iCal: Silly Apple Knowledge Base article

Monday, December 8th, 2003 • 8:43 am

Check out this Knowledge Base article. Apple seem to be quite serious when they say: Log in to your account an hour or more before an alarm is expected. Alarms may not occur during the first hour after you turn on and log in to your computer. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but […]

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Panther: Recalcitrant CD-RWs

Monday, December 8th, 2003 • 7:31 am

I keep experiencing problems with some of my CD-RWs in Panther, but I think the problems are not limited to Panther itself and might be related to hardware issues. I have some CD-RWs (brand: Maxell) that I bought at least a couple of years ago. I’m trying to erase them. If I go to Panther’s […]

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More on word selection in text editors and word processors in Mac OS X

Sunday, December 7th, 2003 • 7:00 am

Last time, I wrote about how inconsistent and non-intuitive the word selection mechanisms are in Word X and most other Mac OS X applications (including Apple’s own). My focus then was on the role of the apostrophe as a word separator and the fact that, linguistically speaking, it makes more sense to consider characters before […]

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LATEXT: « À force de mourir », « Les êtres faux » et « Retour de force »

Sunday, December 7th, 2003 • 6:44 am

Trois nouveaux textes (en français) ont été ajoutés au site LATEXT : « À force de mourir » « Les êtres faux » « Retour de force »

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EPL: Day 15, Part 2 (Southampton 3 – Charlton 2)

Sunday, December 7th, 2003 • 6:18 am

Boy, was I wrong in assuming that the Sunday games would be dreadfully boring. OK, so the first one was, and I didn’t watch much of it. But Southampton against Charlton! Who knew what they had in store? I missed the first half due to my assumptions, but caught a glimpse of the score at […]

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EPL: Day 15

Saturday, December 6th, 2003 • 8:24 am

This day in the English Premier League had, unfortunately, a familiar smell… the smell of last season. But with a new twist. First of all, Manchester United had no opposition whatsoever for 90 minutes against Aston Villa at Old Trafford and the only reason why the score stayed at 4-0 is that they didn’t play […]

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iTunes 4.1: Major flaw with bit rate

Friday, December 5th, 2003 • 8:42 am

This is a really bad one… If you go to iTunes’ Preferences and define a custom setting for importing songs, and if you fiddle with mono vs. stereo, iTunes gets thoroughly confused about the bit rate. If you specify a bit rate of 96 kbps in mono, for example, iTunes actually translates these settings into […]

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Yet more iDisk woes in Panther

Friday, December 5th, 2003 • 8:38 am

This is getting ridiculous. I’ve mentioned the serious performance issues of iDisk in Panther and its dreadful impact on performance in the Finder and in Open/Save dialog boxes throughout all applications. Today, I wanted to replace the MP3 file I uploaded yesterday with a new one. So I mounted the iDisk. I then browsed the […]

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